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Stefan Hell 4: The Best of IWasPoisoned 2 w/ Bryan Quinby and Chris James | Blocked Party

January 21, 2026 at 5:34 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Some would say the signs are there that by continuing to do episodes like this I hate myself, but I'm pretty sure that's not true. I think it's more that Stefan hates me

Blocked Party @blockedparty.bsky.social · 4d

Stefan Hell 4: The Best of IWasPoisoned 2 w/ @murderxbryan.bsky.social and Chris James. Yeah Stefan did this to John again. Our friends from the Guys podcast are here too. This is truly some of the worst and weirdest content on the internet. Enjoy.

www.patreon.com/posts/148613...

Stefan Hell 4: The Best of IWasPoisoned 2 w/ Bryan Quinby and Chris James | Blocked Party

January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM

Reposted by John Cullen

Blocked Party

@blockedparty.bsky.social

Stefan Hell 4: The Best of IWasPoisoned 2 w/ @murderxbryan.bsky.social and Chris James. Yeah Stefan did this to John again. Our friends from the Guys podcast are here too. This is truly some of the worst and weirdest content on the internet. Enjoy.

www.patreon.com/posts/148613...

Y'All Want a Single #121: "What It Is To Burn" by Finch | The P.O.D. Kast

January 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

I will continue my fight on the side of 00s emo and screamo vs. famous hater Briam Quimby

The POD Kast @thepodkast.bsky.social · 7d

Y'All Want a Single #121: "What It Is To Burn" by Finch. We're covering the "most nu-metal third-wave emo song" on this episode, and John gets brought back to high school. We also discuss bands who get openly contentious with the audience at shows.

www.patreon.com/posts/148297...

Y'All Want a Single #121: "What It Is To Burn" by Finch | The P.O.D. Kast

January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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The POD Kast

@thepodkast.bsky.social

Y'All Want a Single #121: "What It Is To Burn" by Finch. We're covering the "most nu-metal third-wave emo song" on this episode, and John gets brought back to high school. We also discuss bands who get openly contentious with the audience at shows.

www.patreon.com/posts/148297...

Episode 311: The 2026 Blocked Party Enemies List

January 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Curling is probably the most gay sport in the world? The World #1 skip and defending world champion in men’s curling is gay. Skip of the #8 team is also gay. There’s a gay nationals in Canada and numerous gay leagues across the country.

TL;DR: curling BEEN gay. Hockey has work to do still

Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 9d

Since we’ve all agreed that hockey is gay we’re now moving to the next agenda item: curling is gay cc @johncullen.bsky.social

January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Damn I didn’t know my breakfast cereal was pussy shit :(

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14d

what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?

January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM

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Linda Holmes

@lindaholmes.bsky.social

I’m late to this, but the actual Broomgate podcast is SO much fun. I really loved it, and I share this frustration at having it yoinked for some garbage YouTube thing. (“Broomgate: A Curling Scandal” is the title.)

John Cullen @johncullen.bsky.social · 18d

Personally I do think it’s very cool when you spend 2 years working on a project about a sport you love and then some guy takes the transcripts of it to spit out an AI script for himself to read over a YouTube video for money. Thanks David!!!!!

saying “happy cake day” in live thread for terror attack @stefanheck.bsky.social · 18d

Love seeing my friend @johncullen.bsky.social’s hard work on Broomgate get chewed up and shit out into some dickhead’s video essay for morons. But hey at least he linked to the podcast he stole in the description!

January 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Feeling bad for the guy who has to dress up as David Draiman in his Disturbed cover band

January 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Sadly today’s events happened before we recorded this but Stefan and I both referred to a certain type of guy in our list that I think he’d fit

Blocked Party @blockedparty.bsky.social · 17d

Episode 311: The 2026 Enemies List. We are back with the 7th annual tradition to hating, reviewing the people we disliked in 2025 and making a fresh list for 2026. We also induct the first member into the Enemies List Hall of Fame. We’ll give you one guess.

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Podcast Episode · Blocked Party · 2026-01-05 · 1h 31m

Episode 311: The 2026 Blocked Party Enemies List

January 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM

Reposted by John Cullen

Blocked Party

@blockedparty.bsky.social

Episode 311: The 2026 Enemies List. We are back with the 7th annual tradition to hating, reviewing the people we disliked in 2025 and making a fresh list for 2026. We also induct the first member into the Enemies List Hall of Fame. We’ll give you one guess.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...

Podcast Episode · Blocked Party · 2026-01-05 · 1h 31m

Weird Islanders Extra! - Unpacking the Whole John Tavares Thing

January 6, 2026 at 2:43 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Personally I do think it’s very cool when you spend 2 years working on a project about a sport you love and then some guy takes the transcripts of it to spit out an AI script for himself to read over a YouTube video for money. Thanks David!!!!!

saying “happy cake day” in live thread for terror attack @stefanheck.bsky.social · 18d

Love seeing my friend @johncullen.bsky.social’s hard work on Broomgate get chewed up and shit out into some dickhead’s video essay for morons. But hey at least he linked to the podcast he stole in the description!

YouTube channel called DavidKingStories. He has 2.33 million subs and his most recent video is called The Biggest Scandal in Curling History

This is the absurd true story of the time the entire sport of Curling was almost destroyed by a single broom.
Made to be watched on TV or listened to as a podcast.
This video is largely based on the research collected in this 6 part series of Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

January 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Very few podcasters possess the unique ability to derail the podcast so thoroughly that the derailment in question is enough for an entire bonus episode, but I am one of the special ones

Dan @cultureoflosing.bsky.social · 21d

Our special holiday surprise podcast! We had @johncullen.bsky.social on for an upcoming episode of Weird Islanders: The Podcast! and we also ended up with a great bonus ep about this weekend’s game and Islanders fans’ relationship with a certain former captain.

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Podcast Episode · Islanders Anxiety: A New York Islanders podcast · 01/02/2026 · Bonus · 33m

BP Classic 6: Joshua Custodio v. Eric the Actor | Blocked Party

January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Stefan had a take that was somehow more controversial than "sauce and cheese are toppings" and we go to war over it on this one

Blocked Party @blockedparty.bsky.social · 23d

BP Classic 6: Joshua Custodio (@wrestlingbrain.net) v. Eric the Actor. We help Josh figure out why he got blocked by the Howard Stern regular over a decade ago and we have our most heated argument in the show's history over The Grinch. This one can't be missed.

www.patreon.com/posts/147098...

BP Classic 6: Joshua Custodio v. Eric the Actor | Blocked Party

December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Blocked Party

@blockedparty.bsky.social

BP Classic 6: Joshua Custodio (@wrestlingbrain.net) v. Eric the Actor. We help Josh figure out why he got blocked by the Howard Stern regular over a decade ago and we have our most heated argument in the show's history over The Grinch. This one can't be missed.

www.patreon.com/posts/147098...

The Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters 28: Big Shiny Tunes 5 w/ Christine Goodwyne | Blocked Party

December 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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The thread o’ tweets

@threadotweets.bsky.social

Mike F @mikefossey
Metallica 1986: here's a song called
creeping death, it's about a plague personified and it shreds
Metallica 1991: this one is called enter
sandman and it's about going to bed

November 21, 2024 at 11:59 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

When Don Cherry (formerly beloved Canadian hockey pundit) first got Twitter, it was revealed after a while that he would phone an admin and leave a voicemail saying word-for-word what he wanted the admin to tweet. No question Trump is in his voice memo era

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 29d

Merry Christmas from a normal man

Trump Truth Social post on fucking Christmas:

@realDonaldTrump
Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to
"drop him like a dog" when things got too
HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn't know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so. When their names get brought out in the ongoing Radical Left Witch Hunt (plus one lowlife "Republican," Massie!), and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do, much like there was when it was made public that the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax was a fictitious story - a total Scam -
and had nothing to do with "TRUMP." The Failing New York Times, among many others, was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty Election "Reporting," even to the point of losing many subscribers due to their highly inaccurate (FAKE!) coverage.
Now the same losers are at it again, only this time so many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and
reputationally tarnished. But sadly, that's the way it is in the World of Corrupt Democrat Politics!!! Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J. Trump

December 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Just in time for Christmas, my favourite albums of 2025. Deftones is in first by a LOT, I listened to that record maybe more than all the rest combined. But some solid albums this year. Great work everybody

December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Doing the thing closing my eyes and chewing slowly like I’m taking an amazing first bite at an incredible restaurant but I’m eating an uncrustable

December 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Christine was an all-timer guest and we got to talk about such Canadian luminaries as "J. Englishman" and "Nickelback"

Blocked Party @blockedparty.bsky.social · Dec 18

Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters 28: Big Shiny Tunes 5 w/ Christine Goodwyne. We LOVE Pool Kids so it was a big treat to bring Christine on the show to discuss Stefan's formative BST and how little Christine knows about Canada. And also everything.

www.patreon.com/posts/146122...

The Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters 28: Big Shiny Tunes 5 w/ Christine Goodwyne | Blocked Party

December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Reposted by John Cullen

Blocked Party

@blockedparty.bsky.social

Canadian Education Programme for Foreign Podcasters 28: Big Shiny Tunes 5 w/ Christine Goodwyne. We LOVE Pool Kids so it was a big treat to bring Christine on the show to discuss Stefan's formative BST and how little Christine knows about Canada. And also everything.

www.patreon.com/posts/146122...

Guys: With Bryan Quinby: Guys: Episode 150 - Canada Guys with John Cullen

December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM

John Cullen

@johncullen.bsky.social

Going on Guys is already extremely fun but then getting to be on a Canada Guys episode as a person who works in the sport of curling for a living was a real treat. Love my boys, this ep was a blast

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · Dec 17

This week on Guys we do a whole CanCon episode. We are gonna get a grant (or a gord) from the CRTC. It’s Canada Guys with our great friend @johncullen.bsky.social. It’s a real Gong Show! bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...

We have been doing a lot of CanCon behind the so I thought it would be fun to do it on the free feed. We had our friend from ,my cohost on and author of the book on the show to talk about all thi...

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December 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪

@murderxbryan.bsky.social

This week on Guys we do a whole CanCon episode. We are gonna get a grant (or a gord) from the CRTC. It’s Canada Guys with our great friend @johncullen.bsky.social. It’s a real Gong Show! bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...

Guys: With Bryan Quinby: Guys: Episode 150 - Canada Guys with John Cullen

We have been doing a lot of CanCon behind the so I thought it would be fun to do it on the free feed. We had our friend from ,my cohost on and author of the book on the show to talk about all thi...

bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com

December 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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The POD Kast

@thepodkast.bsky.social

Y'All Want a Single #119: "Prove You Wrong" by Prong. It's another proto-nu band that we don't really like but can see their influence very easily. We also digress into a long discussion about Headbangers' Ball and its influence on Bryan and metal music in general.

www.patreon.com/posts/145654...

Y'All Want a Single #119: "Prove You Wrong" by Prong | The P.O.D. Kast